The Supreme Court granted the Little Sisters of the Poor, and other religious organizations, a major victory today when they found against a contraceptive mandate in the Affordable Care Act or Obamacare as its known.
The charity had been involved …
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According to numbers released by the Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services today, nearly 12 million people signed up for health insurance under the Affordable Care Act, or Obamacare, during the 2018 open enrollment period. That number is a slight …
Continue ReadingA new study by the Robert Wood Johnson Foundation, a healthcare education and advocacy group, has found that the re-establishment of certain subsidies implemented under Obamacare but repealed by President Trump last year may actually be detrimental to premium prices…
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Blue Cross of Idaho announced on Wednesday that it will begin offering insurance plans in the state that do not meet Obamacare’s requirements. The announcement comes in the wake of a controversial executive order from Governor …
Continue ReadingNine states are considering instituting their own healthcare mandates less than two months after Congress repealed Obamacare’s individual mandate as part of their tax overhaul package. Proposals being considered in California, Connecticut, Hawaii, Maryland, Minnesota, New Jersey, Rhode Island, Vermont …
Continue ReadingA newly released document shows that the Trump administration had secret plans to kill Obamacare regardless of whether Congress took action. The document pre-dates any votes om Congress on the repealing the healthcare law and involved the administration’s use of …
Continue ReadingThe Congressional Budget Office has drastically lowered the cost estimate for funding the Children’s Health Insurance Program. The revised cost estimate makes it likely that lawmakers will find a solution to keeping the program funded going forward.
The program had …
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